OFFICIAL Eorzea's Next Top Model Discussion Thread

[EorzeasNTM]

I did not even notice you were wearing make up in the shot you submitted for Judging! haha.

This picture is beautiful though! Please find a way to use it somewhere, somehow! Signature or something maybe?

[AmalahRose]

I did not even notice you were wearing make up in the shot you submitted for Judging! haha.

This picture is beautiful though! Please find a way to use it somewhere, somehow! Signature or something maybe?

I will try, at the very least I'll use it as a desktop wallpaper sometime. Thanks Rongi. ^^

Edit: OMG there were NPCs in my favourite shot. That would have counted right? RIGHT!?

[Adeline]

RONGI MAIL!!!

As the Youtube models are submitting their final submissions for their 8 rounds, I've been thinking, and I want to bring this up with you guys.

LadyVal brought it up during Cycle 2, a Photoshoot mentor. How does everyone else feel about it?

I wanted to try it out for Cycle Youtube, and the process has been as such.
1) The model submits one photo per round.
2) I critique each shot. Sometimes, the photo submitted are absolutely awesome. And I tell them to not change a thing! Other times, I have told them to uncenter themselves, change their outfit or background, or rework the lighting. The only thing I think I have tried not to do is tell them to rework the entire concept they have for the shot, just tell them what I think they should do to make their concept come together as a good screen shot.
3) The model then submits up to 3 photos, and of those 3 (+ the original photo they submitted) I tell them which I liked the best.
4) On November 30th, the Model will be submitting their final selections to submit to the judges.

Honestly, I have absolutely LOVED the experience. And I've seen 4 of the models final submissions so far and they really took my critiques to heart and submitted some great photos.

I would absolutely love to bring this Mentor System to Cycle 4, if our community (we need a name! ENTMers?) wants it.

Unfortunately it does open up the "The mentor purposefully told me something bad so I would get eliminated!" can of worms. The only way around this that I can see is making the Mentors Critiques public, possibly here on the forum, but without showing the Model's photo (because it ruins the surprise and allows other models to copy ideas!). If anyone else has any suggestions for how we can eliminate this problem from creeping up, please let me know!

I trust myself, and I hope all of you trust me as well, and the YT models are more than welcome to post their critiques I have sent to them here so you can all see that I put my heart into each critique to help the models succeed. The only problem is, I am planning on entering myself into Cycle 4, either the boys or girls contest, so we will need a new Mentor to step up...One that pinky promises not to give bad critiques to help their friend/favorite model win the competition.

The floor is open for discussion! ^^

After Cycle 3 ends for me, I am very much interested in participating more with ENTM, whether it be public vote + critiques or judging (or both!), so I'd be very much for this sort of concept! I think it would greatly help new models get a feel for what we've learned, and understand what the public and judges are looking for in shots